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DIoscorides, saith, That the green and tender leaves, being applyed with Pollent, helpeth burning.
These following are commended by Authors: first, the oyle of infused flowers and bark: secondly, the oyle of the leaves and bark fryed in butter and oyle; thirdly, the two liniaments
of Matthiolus and Plater; the receits of which are set down in the second Section in the second and fourth Chapters.
The Uses. A member being burn∣ed with fire, gun Powder, boyling water, &c. is to be easily anoynted with these warm, and afterwards to be wrapt in soft and warm linnen: For each one of them hath the vertue of rarifying the skin, of drawing out hot vapors, mitigating pain, digesting and drying of serosity, and of curing the raised blabs in ulcers, and in restoring the diseased place, as much as is possi∣ble, to its wonted beauty.
If the burning pierce more deep, so that the blabs being broken, and the skar taken a way, it degenerateth into an ulcer; besides these oyles and oynt∣ments, you must sprinkle easily and lightly every day, the powder of the leaves and pith; which doth excellent∣ly dry, and, by cleansing moderately, doth fill ulcers with flesh.
In this case oyles are more profitable
then liniaments, as will be easily found by any that use them.
This following unguent, as a singu∣lar experiment, is commended in all kinds of burning by the famous Don∣••relius, for easing pain, or quenching the force of the heat, and soon and safely curing the ulcers; also it is hap∣pily applyed to Herpes Miliaris, and other out-breakings, which come from yellow bile, or salt humors.
The barks are to be cut in small pie∣ces, & infused together with the seed in a sufficient quantity of the water of Elder-flowers, for the space of three hours warm; then add half an ounce of sheeps dung; mix them, and boyle them in a double vessel in May-butter unsalted, washed oft in fountain wa∣ter, and at last in the water of Elder-flowers, till the humidity be perfectly consumed. Strain them: and add of
yellow wax, as much as sufficeth; mix them: and according to art make an oyntment. They are Donerelius his words.
If the ulcer become more sordid, use the things in the precedent Chap∣ter. Lac aureum drank up in Linnen clothes, and applyed, is profitable, of which we have spoken in the cure of Erysipelas.
When many parts, or those situated next the nobler parts, are burned, and then the unnaturel heat spreadeth it self over the whole body, you are to use those things set down in the cure of the hot feaver. Or make this Ju∣lap:
Mix them for two doses: for it cool∣eth the heatned spirits, it extinguish∣eth the thirst, dissipateth the Empe∣reum, and roborateth the strength.
Apply to the frosted parts, the mid∣dle bark of the Elder, or linnen moystned in their decoction. When they clif; the powder of Elder-bark, pith, and flowers, reduced to a linia∣menth with the oyle of infused flowers, in commended, the parts therewith being anoynted daily. Ap∣ply upon it linnen moystned in the Golden Milk of the Elder, for it drieth and hindreth a Gangreene. See more in the cure of Ulcers.